Beyond the Cold War

Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s

Edited by Francis J. Gavin and and Mark Atwood Lawrence

Challenges much of the existing scholarship on the international history of the 1960's, indicating that profound shifts in the global order were bringing new kinds of problems to the fore that would persist after the Cold war

Many of the global challenges we face today - energy dependence, epidemic diseases, massive increases in trade and monetary flows, for example - first drew serious attention in the 1960s

Examines how the Johnson presidency responded to these problems and draws out the lessons for today.

Beyond the Cold War

Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s

Edited by Francis J. Gavin and and Mark Atwood Lawrence

Description

In writing about international affairs in the 1960s, historians have naturally focused on the Cold War. The decade featured perilous confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union over Berlin and Cuba, the massive buildup of nuclear stockpiles, the escalation of war in Vietnam, and bitter East-West rivalry throughout the developing world. As the world historical force of globalization has quickened and deepened, however, historians have begun to see that many of the global challenges that we face today

Beyond the Cold War examines how the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson responded to this changing international landscape. To what extent did U.S. leaders understand these changes? How did they prioritize these issues alongside
the geostrategic concerns that dominated their daily agendas and the headlines of the day? How successfully did Americans grapple with these long-range problems, with what implications for the future? What lessons lie in the efforts of Johnson and his aides to cope with a new and inchoate agenda of problems? By reconsidering the 1960s, this work suggests a new research agenda predicated on the idea that the Cold War was not the only - or perhaps even the most important - feature of international life in the postwar period.

Edited by Francis J. Gavin and and Mark Atwood Lawrence

Table of Contents

Part I: Thinking Beyond East and West 1. Lyndon Johnson and the Challenges of Economic Globalization, Daniel Sargent2. Toward a New Deal for the World? Lyndon Johnson's Aspirations to Renew the Twentieth Century's Pax Americana, Patrick O. Cohrs3. Moving Beyond the Cold War: The Johnson Administration, Bridge-Building, and Détente, Thomas A. Schwartz

Part II: Internationalizing the Great Society4. One Global War on Poverty: The Johnson Administration Fights Poverty at Home and Abroad, 1964-1968, Sheyda Jahanbani5. LBJ's Third War: The War on Hunger, Nick Cullather6. LBJ and World Population: Planning the Greater Society One Family
at a Time, Matthew Connelly7. Globalizing the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and the Pursuit of Smallpox Eradication, Erez Manela

Part III: Adapting to a World of Scarcity8. Thinking Globally: U.S. Foreign Aid, Paul Ehrlich, and the Emergence of Environmentalism in the 1960s, Tom Robertson9. "More a Gun at Our Heads than Theirs": The 1967 Arab Oil Embargo, Third World Raw Materials Sovereignty, and American Diplomacy, Christopher R.W. Dietrich

Part IV: Shifting Moralities10. The Rise of Human Rights during the Johnson Years, Sarah B. Snyder11. Globalized Faith, Radicalized Religion, and the Domestic Sources of U.S. Foreign Policy, Andrew Preston

Beyond the Cold War

Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s

Edited by Francis J. Gavin and and Mark Atwood Lawrence

Author Information

Francis J. Gavin is the Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971 and Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age.

Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.

Beyond the Cold War

Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s

Edited by Francis J. Gavin and and Mark Atwood Lawrence

Reviews and Awards

"Distinguished historians Frank Gavin and Mark Lawrence have assembled an all-star cast of young scholars of U.S. foreign relations to shed new light on the 1960s, a decade we thought we already knew perhaps too well. These excellent essays focus on contemporary global issues of the greatest importance-environmental change, energy, poverty and disease, human rights, religion, globalization-and trace them back to their emergence as policy concerns during the Lyndon Johnson administration. The authors challenge and expand our understanding of national security in a global age. This is some of the best of the new U.S. international history." --Thomas Borstelmann, author of The Cold War and the Color Line

"This exemplary collection sets the agenda for a new phase in the scholarship on the international history of the 1960s."--Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University